Censored rap
By Sam Wainwright
@box text intro = The ability of the ideas of the extreme right to penetrate France's state institutions was dramatically demonstrated in Toulon last year. Kool Shen and Joey Starr, singers with the rap group
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The Fifth ElementStarring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich and Gary OldmanDirected by Luc BessonNow showing in all major cinemas Review by James O'Donnell
The Fifth Element is flawed. More than this, it is a whole procession of secondary flaws
By Cameron Parker
If you have the time and motivation, the annual Sydney Film Festival is an escapist experience par excellence. The 44th Sydney Film Festival will be presenting about 150 films, from 25 countries, over 15 days in June. Ticket
Roisin McAliskey gives birth
@box text intro = As Roisin McAliskey gave birth to a healthy 2.6 kg baby girl on May 26, international pressure redoubled on the British and German governments to quickly release mother and child.
Roisin has
Queensland public servants stop work
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — Federal public servants throughout Queensland stopped work for half a day on May 29 as part of the Community and Public Sector Union's national campaign to protect Australian
A two-week issue
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly is taking a mid-year break next week. The next issue will be dated June 18.
The Crocodile ClubBy Kaz CookeAllen & Unwin, 1997. 230 pp., $14.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
The comic genius of Kaz Cooke has been let loose again with the paperback release of her novel, The Crocodile Club. There is no funnier cure than Kaz
Fighting the system: young radicals' conference
By Sean Healy
"Fight the system" is the theme of the 26th national conference of the socialist youth organisation, Resistance. The conference, to be held in Melbourne July 3-6, is
By Margaret Gleeson
SYDNEY — Emulating Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett, NSW Labor treasurer Michael Egan announced on May 22 that the government intends to sell the state's power generation, transmission and distribution system for a $22
Rally slams executions by Iraq
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — Forty people rallied outside the Iraqi embassy here on May 30 to protest against executions of political prisoners by the Baghdad regime. Between February and April, 264 political
By Sarah Peart
More than 700 people attended some 40 events organised by Resistance and other East Timor solidarity groups during the week of action for a "Free East Timor and Democracy for Indonesia" from May 17-24. Organiser of the Sydney
Turkish forces massacre Kurds
More than 100 civilians killed when Turkish government forces launched an attack on the city of Irbil in the Kurdish part of northern Iraq on May 16. Heavy artillery was used against the hospital of the Kurdish Red
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